Asylum Avenue Baptist Committee held a meeting to discuss the present and the future

1. The church decided it would hold Sunday services in the West Middle School auditorium “until further notice.”
2. Frank Lowe announced that the Young People’s Department had already accepted an invitation from Trinity Episcopal Church to meet there.

1. According to the article, the West Middle School District Committee offered the use of both the West Middle School auditorium and the kindergarten classrooms in the old building to the Asylum Avenue Baptist Church. The Asylum Avenue Baptist Society learned of this offer earlier in the day and, apparently, announced it tonight, but there’s no independent confirmation of the offer.
2. The article didn’t name any of the attendees.

The church building was substantially damaged in a fire yesterday.

On February 11, 1931, he Asylum Avenue Baptist Church general committee will accept the insurance settlement offered.

Morgan Brainard offered to let Asylum Avenue Baptist Church hold its Sunday services in the auditorium at the new Aetna Life Insurance Company Building.  Twenty-six years later, the Cathedral of Saint Joseph would use that auditorium for Sunday mass after a fire destroyed the cathedral.

“The discussion was informal in nature, the speakers pointing out that it would be impossible to make any definite decision until further information is obtained regarding the exact condition of the building after the fire.”

1. Frank Haggard was the pastor of Asylum Avenue Baptist Church. He lived at 31 Linwold Drive in West Hartford.
2. Frank Lowe was president of the Young People’s Department.
3. Morgan Brainard was president of Aetna Life.

Unattributed.  “Offer school to homeless congregation,” Hartford Courant, February 3, 1931, page 22.